Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The data quality concept of accuracy in the context of publicly shared data sets

Along with other data quality dimensions, the concept of accuracy is often used to describe the quality of a particular data set. However, its basic definition refers to the statistical properties of estimators, which can hardly be proved by means of just a single survey. This ambiguity can be resolved by assigning “accuracy” to survey processes that are known to affect these properties. In this contribution, ...

Continuing Vocational Training in Germany - A Comparative Study Using 3 German Data Sets

Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions: Evidence from Britain and Germany

Daylight savings time represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that individuals in both the UK and Germany experience ...

Essays in Empirical Development and Education Economics (Dissertation)

The fourth essay (co-authored by Marten von Werder) analyzes the causal effects of tracking, the practice of grouping students by ability, on educational outcomes and the intergenerational transmission of education. While proponents of tracking argue that the practice increases efficiency in educational production, opponents point out that tracking potentially aggravates initial differences between ...

Tracking and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases effciency while opponents point out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had no effect on educational outcomes ...

Bootstrapping Goodness-of-Fit Measures in Categorical Data Analysis

Latent Markov Chains (Chapter 11)

Within-couple specialisation in paid work: A long-term pattern? A dual trajectory approach to linking lives

Research on the division of labour has mainly focussed on transitions between individuals’ labour market states during the first years of parenthood. A common conclusion has been that couples specialise – women in unpaid and men in paid work – either due to gender ideologies or a comparative advantage in the labour market. But what happens later in life? The German Socio-Economic Panel now provides ...

Flexible men and successful women: the effects of flexible working hours on German couples’ wages

Work hour flexibility is believed to help couples manage career and family demands. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is unique in following both the flexible employee and their partner over time. The study utilizes this feature to investigate whether the take-up of work hour flexibility is detrimental for the flexible employee’s wage development. Men and women benefit from flexible working ...

Consequences of voluntary job changes in Germany: A multilevel analysis for 1985–2013

Analyzing the development of the consequences of voluntary job changes in Germany between 1985 and 2013, the study focuses on income gains and job satisfaction increases. Drawing on arguments of the job-search literature on the one hand and the proliferation of choices on the other we investigate whether the returns of job changes have increased or decreased. Results show that income gains have decreased ...